A Decent Home
By Sara Terry (’18) | Director/Writer
“A Decent Home” is a feature length documentary film by Sara Terry that addresses urgent issues of class and economic inequity through the lives of mobile home park residents who can’t afford housing anywhere else. The film asks, Who are we becoming as Americans? — as private equity firms and wealthy investors buy up parks, making sky-high returns on their investments while squeezing every last penny out of the mobile home owners who lack rights and protections under local and state laws, and must pay rent for the land they live on.
As the pandemic exposes even greater social and economic inequities in the United States, A Decent Home is the first documentary to focus on mobile home parks and the othering and injustices faced by park residents. Our engagement campaign will use the film as an educational and social justice intervention tool to help drive awareness and action in support of manufactured housing owner rights. It will center affordable housing in a broad public forum for debate, discussion and advocacy.